These are the execution case files of the Office of the General Counsel of
Texas Governor George W. Bush, created to track the cases of death row inmates and
to document actions by the courts and the governor through appeals, requests for
stays of execution, or clemency. The files consist of execution summaries by the
governor's general counsel and summaries by the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles
(BPP) (or by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice for the BPP), memos and
correspondence, clemency petitions, affidavits, court documents, notes, records from
the Texas Department of Criminal Justice inmate files, Department of Public Safety
criminal history records, clippings, case summaries from the South Western Reporter or similar court reports, citations from online
legal sources, and audio and video tapes. Dates covered are 1886, 1903, 1912-1914,
1921, 1939, 1950-2000, the bulk dating 1986-2000.

The governor of Texas is the chief executive officer of the state, elected by the
citizens every four years. The duties and responsibilities of the governor include
serving as commander-in-chief of the state's military forces; convening special
sessions of the legislature for specific purposes; delivering to the legislature at
the beginning of each regular session a report on the condition of the state, an
accounting of all public money under the governor's control, a recommended biennial
budget, an estimate of the amounts of money required to be raised by taxation, and
any recommendations he deems necessary; signing or vetoing bills passed by the
legislature; and executing the laws of the state. The governor can grant reprieves
and commutations of punishment and pardons, upon the recommendation of the Board of
Pardons and Paroles, and revoke conditional pardons. He appoints numerous state
officials (with the consent of the Senate), fills vacancies in state and district
offices (except vacancies in the legislature), calls special elections to fill
vacancies in the legislature, fills vacancies in the United States Senate until an
election can be held, and serves as ex officio member of several state boards.

The office of governor was first established by the Constitution of 1845 and
superseded the office of president of the Republic of Texas. The position now exists
under authority of Article IV, Section 1 of the Constitution of 1876 and Texas
Government Code, Chapter 401. To be elected governor, a person must be at least
thirty years old, a United States citizen, and a resident of Texas for at least five
years preceding the election. In 1972, the term of office was extended from two to
four years, effective in 1975. Since 1856 the governor has had the use of the
Governor's Mansion.

In 1999 there were 198 full time equivalent employees in the Office of the Governor.
Thirteen divisions outside of the Executive Office assist the governor in carrying
out his functions: Administration, Appointments, Budget & Planning,
Communications, General Counsel, Legislative, Policy, Scheduling, Criminal Justice
Division, Governor's Committee on People with Disabilities, Office of Film, Music,
Television and Multimedia Industries, Women's Commission, and Texas Council on
Workforce and Economic Competitiveness.

The general counsel position within the Texas Office of the Governor was created in
October 1973 when the executive director of the Governor's Criminal Justice Division
appointed an individual as general counsel, to assist him in providing statute
interpretations and in other matters relating to policies and procedures. Today the
Office of the General Counsel is a separate division in the Governor's Office.
During the Bush Administration, Alberto Gonzales served as general counsel,
succeeded in 1998 by Margaret Wilson.

Duties of the general counsel include providing statute interpretations; tracking
inmates on death row as their cases move through the judicial process including all
appeals to the governor for commutations or stays of execution; handling pardon
requests sent to the governor; reviewing proposed settlements, land patents, grant
requests, contracts, easements, and deeds for the governor; analyzing proposed
legislation and regulations for validity and legal effect; assisting appointments
staff in determining eligibility and other legal issues related to proposed
appointments; handling extradition and requisition matters; coordinating ethics
guidelines and training for the governor's office; advising the governor on federal
programs administered by the state; coordinating the governor's criminal justice
policy with the governor's policy director; and providing legal advice and handling
litigation filed against the governor or the Governor's Office, in conjunction with
actions of the Attorney General on the governor's behalf.

(Sources include: Guide to Texas State Agencies, 9th and
10th eds., (1996 and 1999); the contents of the records; and versions of the
Governor's Office web site during Governor Bush's term available on the Internet
Archive at http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.governor.state.tx.us, accessed
on March 3, 2009.)

George W. Bush served as governor of Texas from January 17, 1995 to December 21,
2000, resigning as governor in the middle of his second term to become president of
the United States.

He challenged the incumbent governor, Democrat Ann Richards, running on promises to
improve public education and to reform the juvenile justice system, welfare, and the
state's tort laws -- the system under which an injured person may sue for damages.
During the 74th Legislature in 1995, he worked with the Democrats who controlled
both houses of the Texas legislature and managed to get bills passed that dealt with
the four issues he had emphasized in his campaign. Bush was seen as pro-business and
a consensus-builder.

Bush advocated and signed the two largest tax cuts to date in Texas history, totaling
over $3 billion. To pay for the cuts, he sought (unsuccessfully) federal approval of
a plan to privatize Texas' social services. Education reform was a priority
throughout his terms, with legislation emphasizing local control of schools, higher
standards, and a revised curriculum. Controversy has followed, with charter schools
mired in financial scandals and protests against one test determining a child's
promotion. After winning reelection in 1998, Bush began his bid for the presidency
and was not as involved in the 76th Legislature in 1999.

George W. Bush was born July 6, 1946 in New Haven, Connecticut and grew up in Midland
and Houston, Texas. He graduated from Andover Academy, and received a bachelor's
degree from Yale University and a master's from Harvard Business School. He served
as a pilot in the Texas Air National Guard. In 1978, Bush was defeated in a run for
the U.S. Congress in West Texas. He was involved in energy exploration from the
1970s into the 1980s. From 1989 until his election as governor, Bush worked with the
Texas Rangers baseball organization, leading a group of partners in purchasing the
team, and then serving as managing general partner. He married Laura Welch in 1977;
they have two daughters.

These are the execution case files of the Office of the General Counsel of Texas
Governor George W. Bush created to track the cases of death row inmates and to
document actions by the courts and the governor through appeals, requests for stays
of execution, or clemency. The files consist of execution summaries by the
governor's general counsel and summaries by the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles
(BPP) (or by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice for the BPP); memos and
correspondence; clemency petitions; affidavits; court documents (judgements,
opinions, appeals, motions, orders, etc.); notes; records from the Texas Department
of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) inmate files, including medical or psychological
summaries or reports, disciplinary reports, social histories, and other internal
reports about specific inmates, police reports, investigative reports of detectives,
crime lab reports, fingerprint records, and occasionally, crime scene and/or autopsy
photos; Department of Public Safety criminal history records; clippings; case
summaries from the South Western Reporter or similar
court reports; citations from online legal sources; and audio and video tapes. Dates
covered are 1886, 1903, 1912-1914, 1921, 1939, 1950-2000, the bulk dating
1986-2000.

Files are present for most of the inmates executed during Bush's term. Correspondents
include staff of the General Counsel's Office, the governor, the BPP, TDCJ, the
Attorney General's Office, appeals courts, district attorneys, local law enforcement
officials, inmates or their attorneys, and family and friends of victims and of the
inmates. During the Bush Administration, Alberto Gonzales served as general counsel,
succeeded in 1998 by Margaret Wilson. The letters are generally addressed to either
the governor or his general counsel; some letters are copies of items addressed to
and forwarded by the BPP to the governor for his review. While many of the letters
are directed to the governor, they are stamped as received at the General Counsel's
Office and there is no indication that the governor reviewed them. What the governor
did review are the execution summaries prepared by the general counsel. Most of
these have a place for the governor to check 'deny'
or 'grant' and for him to sign. Some of these are
originals, though most are copies. Execution summaries prepared by the general
counsel are not present in all inmate execution case files. They are present in the
Legal opinions and advice (LOA) series and in the
Death penalty notebooks series of the General
Counsel's Office. And, the majority of the execution summaries in the LOA records
have the original signature of the governor. In the event of the governor being
absent from the state when an execution is scheduled to occur, the lieutenant
governor presides over the execution as acting governor. When both the governor and
lieutenant governor are absent from the state during a scheduled execution, the
president pro tempore of the Texas Senate presides over the execution as acting
governor. During Bush's term, Lieutenant Governors Bob Bullock and Rick Perry and
Senator Rodney Ellis were called upon to preside over executions as acting governor.
Each instance of an execution presided over by an acting governor is noted in the
inventory.

Execution case summaries prepared by the BPP or for the BPP by TDCJ are confidential
by statute, and there is no indication (such as signature sheets or notes) that the
governor reviewed these. There is a difference between the execution summaries
prepared by the governor's general counsel and those done by or for the BPP. The
summaries by the BPP contain more information about the crime, the criminal history,
and the defendant's prison record than do those prepared by the governor's general
counsel. Additionally, execution summaries prepared by TDCJ or BPP often contain
attachments, including correspondence between the BPP and inmates or with victims
and inmates families, correspondence or memoranda to the BPP from its legal counsel,
recommendations from trial officials, medical and psychological reports, and
criminal histories. The summaries and attachments are confidential. The BPP
correspondence, TDCJ records, law enforcement reports, medical or psychological
reports, and court records were generally sent over to the governor's office as part
of a review packet, though not often identified as part of the BPP's execution
summary. Regardless of whether they were part of the execution summary or part of a
separate review packet from the BPP, these materials are confidential.

Affidavits, court records, and other materials were often included as exhibits or
attachments to clemency petitions sent to governor by the inmate and/or his/her
attorney. Most materials included as attachments to the clemency petition to the
governor are open. If the clemency petition was sent directly to the Board of
Pardons and Pardons and then forwarded to the governor, it is confidential; if it
was sent directly to the governor by the inmate or his attorney, it is open, though
some of the attachments may be confidential. Clemency petitions are not present for
all inmates; not all death row inmates submitted a petition. In a very few cases
petitions missing from the execution case files can be found in the series, Death penalty notebooks.

Although the inmates were executed, some materials are still confidential -
medical/psychological reports; any reports or documents produced by TDCJ, such as
disciplinary reports on the inmates, social histories, etc.; most files gathered or
created by the Board of Pardons and Paroles for its review and most correspondence
with the BPP; etc. See the Restrictions statement for further information about
confidential records.

Confidential information in the execution case files is not limited to the notations
in the folder listing. The notations present were added because the confidential
nature of the information is not obvious.

Restrictions on Access

Because of the possibility that portions of these records fall under Public
Information Act exceptions including, but not limited to: social security numbers;
common law privacy (Texas Government Code, Section 552.101); names of recipients of
social services (Texas Human Resources Code, Title 2, Section 12.003 and/or Texas
Government Code, Section 552.101); email addresses (Texas Government Code, Section
552.137); driver's license numbers (Texas Government Code, Section 552.130); names
of juvenile offenders (Texas Family Code, Section 58.005 and/or Texas Government
Code, Section 552.101); names of victims of sexual assaults (Texas Government Code,
Section 552.101); criminal histories prepared by the Department of Public Safety,
information about inmates incarcerated by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice
received from the Board of Pardons and Paroles, and information created by the Texas
Department of Criminal Justice (Texas Government Code, Section 552.101 (information
confidential by law, Texas Government Code, Section 508.313)); grand jury records
(Texas Code of Criminal Procedure, Article 20.02); juror information (Texas Code of
Criminal Procedure, Article 35.29), crime victim impact statement (Texas Government
Code, Section 552.1325); autopsy photographs (Texas Code of Criminal Procedure,
Article 49.25 [989a]); agency memoranda (Texas Government Code, Section 552.111);
and attorney client privilege (Texas Government Code, Section 552.107), an archivist
must review these records before they can be accessed for research. The records may
be requested for research under the provisions of the Public Information Act (Texas
Government Code, Chapter 552).

The researcher may request an interview with an archivist or submit a request by mail
(Texas State Library and Archives Commission, P.O. Box 12927, Austin, TX 78711), fax
(512-463-5436), email (director.librarian@tsl.texas.gov), or see our web page
(https://www.tsl.texas.gov/requestgovernorbushrecords.html). Include
enough description and detail about the information requested to enable the
archivist to accurately identify and locate the information requested. (Note: The
Governor's Office has requested that the State Archives contact the Public
Information Coordinator for the Governor's Office when we receive a Public
Information Act request for these records.) If our review reveals information that
may be excepted by the Public Information Act, we are obligated to seek an open
records decision from the Attorney General on whether the records can be released.
The Public Information Act allows the Archives ten working days after receiving a
request to make this determination. The Attorney General has 45 working days to
render a decision. Alternately, the Archives can inform you of the nature of the
potentially excepted information and if you agree, that information can be redacted
or removed and you can access the remainder of the records.

Restrictions on Use

Most records created by Texas state agencies are not copyrighted. State records also
include materials received by, not created by, state agencies. Copyright remains
with the creator. The researcher is responsible for complying with U.S. Copyright
Law (Title 17 U.S.C.).

Technical Requirements

Researchers are required to wear gloves provided by the archives when reviewing
photographic materials.

Researchers wishing to view videotapes or listen to audiotapes must contact Archives
staff to obtain the necessary equipment.

In December 2000, Governor George W. Bush designated the George Bush Presidential
Library as the repository for the records from his tenure as Governor of Texas,
under authority of Texas Government Code, Section 441.201. Shortly after he left
office, the records were trucked to the Bush Library in College Station, Texas.
Texas Attorney General John Cornyn ruled the records are state records subject
to the Texas Public Information Act and the management of the Texas State
Library and Archives Commission even after transfer to a federal facility
(Opinion No. JC-0498, May 3, 2002). In July 2002 the records were transferred
from the Bush Library to the Texas State Archives in Austin for preparation for
research use. In June 2003, a memorandum of understanding signed by
representatives of the National Archives and Records Administration, the Texas
State Library and Archives Commission, and George W. Bush replaced a January
2002 interim memorandum of understanding. The records were moved to the George
W. Bush Presidential Library in February 2013.

An additional accession of records was transferred to the Archives and
Information Services Division of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission
by the Texas Office of the Governor on March 19, 2015.

Correspondence and memoranda - BPP and TDCJ with the
general public, inmate's attorney, and attorney general,
1991-1992

Clippings, about
1989-1990

Barnes, Odell, Jr., # 998

[Executed on March 1, 2000. There are a number of
death penalty protest letters re: Odell Barnes filed in the General correspondence files of Governor
Bush. This execution was presided over by Lieutenant Governor Rick
Perry as acting governor during the absence of the governor from the
state.]

Box

2002/151-36

Clemency petition and exhibits received by BPP:

[The clemency petition received by BPP and
attached affidavits, and most other exhibits, as listed
below, are confidential as they are considered to all be
part of the clemency petition.]

Correspondence with governor's office, memos, execution
summary by governor's general counsel, correspondence from victim's
family forwarded to governor, response of trial officials to BPP
forwarded to governor, 1998

Boyd, Charles Anthony, #
891

[Executed on August 5, 1999. This execution was
presided over by Lieutenant Governor Rick Perry as acting governor
during the absence of the governor from the state.]

Box

2002/151-37

Return of death warrant, execution summary by governor's
general counsel, case summary in the South
Western Reporter, correspondence with governor's office,
1991-1992

Clemency petition received by governor with attachments - two
sets of the packet. Attachments include medical and psychological
evaluations, juvenile probation records, trial testimony, case
summary in the South Western Reporter,
and printed materials, 1975-1995[set 1 - four folders, set 2 - four folders]

Court records, criminal history, correspondence with BPP,
correspondence with the governor's office, letters to and
responses from trial officials with exhibits (case summary from
South Western Reporter, etc.),
1978-1986

[Note: Likely case material received from
the BPP with the execution summary.]

Carter, Robert Anthony, #
708

[Executed on May 18, 1998.]

Box

2002/151-39

Return of death warrant, execution summary by governor's
general counsel, clemency petition received by governor,
correspondence with the governor's office, court records, execution
summary by TDCJ for BPP, 1995-1998

Return of death warrant, execution summary by governor's
general counsel, clemency petition to governor, correspondence of
inmate's attorney with BPP, correspondence with governor's office,
case summary in South Western Reporter,
1999

[Executed on November 1, 2000. This execution was
presided over by Lieutenant Governor Rick Perry as acting governor
during the absence of the governor from the state.]

Box

2002/151-42

Return of death warrant, correspondence with governor's
office, execution summaries by governor's general counsel, BPP
voting sheet, notes, inmate's last statement, letters from inmate's
family to governor, 2000

[Faulder was a Canadian citizen whose case generated numerous court
records and correspondence, some of it concerning the lack of
notification of Canadian consular officials by the state upon his
arrest. Faulder's records were foldered into large wallets by record
type while still at the governor's office. This arrangement has been
maintained. Many of the court records are foldered individually due to
their size. In the series Press Office, Audio
tapes, are two tapes concerning Faulder's 1999
execution.]

Box

2002/151-44

Petitions and requests:

Clemency petition to BPP, 1981, 1992

Clemency petition to BPP with exhibits (court records,
affidavits, poetry written by Faulder, photocopies of
photographs of Faulder and his family, letters from his family),
1997[2 folders]

Memos, most from BPP to governor's general counsel, one
with copies of letters to BPP from prosecuting attorney and
victim's family attached, 1998

[Contains possibly excepted information:
email address]

Memos - from BPP to governor's general counsel with
copies of letters from inmate's attorney to Attorney General and
Attorney General cover letter (with court records) to the court,
1998

Execution summary by governor's general counsel, and
memos from BPP to governor's general counsel with letters from
trial officials to BPP, from the victim's family, and
photocopies of crime scene photos, 1998

Memos between BPP and governor's general counsel,
internal general counsel memos, execution summary by governor's
general counsel, letter to governor from Canadian Consulate
General, 1992-1997

Notes and research (mostly case summaries from the South Western Reporter, with a few
notes), 1977-1999[5 folders]

Orders:

1992,
1997-1998

1998

1998

1998-1999

1998-1999

TDCJ correspondence [and files]:

[most files are likely BPP case file
materials]

Correspondence with governor's office, include some with
attached letters from trial officials to the court or to TDCJ,
1977-1992

Letter to governor from district attorney with
attachments (court records, Faulder's driver's license),
December
1998[2 folders]

[Contains possibly excepted information:
driver's license number]

Correspondence with governor's office or Texas Secretary
of State and fax cover letters, letter with U.S. Secretary of
State Albright and press issues memo, letters from general
public (Canadians), November-December 1998

Correspondence with BPP from victim's friends and others,
letter from general counsel to Canadian Minister of Foreign
Affairs, correspondence with Attorney General's Office,
governor's press statement, November-December
1998

Correspondence with governor's office from general
public, copies of letters to BPP from inmate's ex-wife, the
Canadian Parliament, foreign minister, and other Canadians,
March-May
1999

Correspondence with governor's office from Canadian
foreign minister (original and copy), and correspondence of the
BPP with Canadian officials, the district attorney, and U.S.
Secretary of State Albright, May 1999

Correspondence with governor's office from Canadian
foreign minister and the general public, fax cover letters,
June
1999

Addendum to execution summary by TDCJ for BPP, copy of
letter from BPP to U.S. Secretary of State, correspondence with
governor's office by general public, return of death warrant,
June
1999

[Flores was a Mexican citizen whose case generated numerous court records
and correspondence, some of it concerning the lack of notification of
Mexican consular officials by the state upon his arrest.]

[This summary is dated Nov. 17, 1997, as is the
previous listed summary. However, this summary has a few more
attachments - more TDCJ records and BPP memos.]

Correspondence with the governor's office, BPP internal
memos, 1998

Execution summary by TDCJ for BPP (1997) (without most of the
attachments in the previous listed copies. This is the signed
original summary. Attachments are a criminal history, court records,
and clippings.), 1993-1997

BPP internal memos, BPP voting sheets (most BPP members are
not on these sheets), BPP correspondence with inmate's attorney,
notifications to and responses from trial officials, and letters
from victim's family from BPP or AG, 1998

Information provided to Lieutenant Governor Perry (and made
available to Senator Ellis) by governor's general counsel, TDCJ, and
the Attorney General, 2000

Graham, Gary, # 696

[Executed on June 22, 2000.]

[Gary Graham was one of the most publicized death penalty cases in Texas
in the 1990s. This case generated numerous court filings,
correspondence, and research materials, in addition clemency petitions
and the usual prison materials found in the files (materials from the
Board of Pardons and Paroles and the Department of Criminal Justice's
inmate files). The records in the execution wallet files are filed
first, followed by materials labeled as part of "Box 4," which were prearranged at the
governor's office with an inventory. Following these records are the
clemency petition to the governor, then correspondence and memoranda,
research materials, court documents, and videos, generally arranged by
type of record.]

Execution summary by TDCJ for BPP with attachments
(correspondence with the governor's office, criminal history, court
records, statement of facts from district attorney, law enforcement
offense report, clippings), 1992-1997[2 folders]

Court records - orders, correspondence with the governor's
office, including letters with victim's family and inmate's family,
1992-1997

Execution summary by TDCJ for BPP, case summaries from South Western Reporter, correspondence
with the governor's office, including letter with inmate, 1986,
1991-1992

[The following files are likely BPP case file
material]:

TDCJ records, criminal history, court records, 1986-1988

Law enforcement offense report, statement of facts by
district attorney, TDCJ records, 1986-1992

TDCJ records, 1986-1992[4 folders]

Box

2015/133-2

Information provided to Lieutenant Governor Perry by
governor's general counsel, TDCJ, and the Attorney General, 2000

Lackey, Clarence Allen, #
591

[Executed on May 20, 1997.]

Box

2002/151-55

Return of death warrant, execution summary by governor's
general counsel, memo to governor from BPP re: decision for petition
request, 1997

Clemency petition to governor, 1997

[Contains possibly excepted information:
common law privacy]

Clemency petition to governor with exhibits (court records),
1997

[Contains possibly excepted information:
common law privacy]

Response of trial officials to BPP, some forwarded to the
governor; BPP legal counsel memo to BPP forwarded to governor;
correspondence with the governor's office with attached publication
from members of British Parliament; court records - order; 1997

[Sentence commuted to life on June 26, 1998. Died
of natural causes on March 19, 2001.]

[There are several boxes of records on the Lucas case. Henry Lee Lucas
confessed to numerous murders in several states and later recanted them
all. His sentence was reduced to life a few days before his scheduled
execution. Most of the files are grouped by record type. There is a
large group of Assistant General Counsel Jim Sallans' working files,
which are filed at the end of the Lucas execution files, arranged
roughly by record type. A small group of death penalty protest letters,
normally found in the general correspondence files of Governor Bush,
were filed with the execution files. They are filed after the Sallans
files.]

[Jim Sallans was an assistant general counsel who worked on the Lucas
case. His files have correspondence, memoranda, notes, copies of
court records, case summaries from legal publications, clippings,
materials from the BPP, and copies of evidence, such as interviews,
depositions, Lucas' work records, etc. These are filed largely by
type of record.]

[The names of rape victims found in McGinn's files were released in a
media advisory through the Attorney General's Office and thus may no
longer protected.]

[Executed on September 27, 2000. This execution was
presided over by Lieutenant Governor Rick Perry as acting governor
during the absence of the governor from the state. Most of McGinn's
files had been organized by governor's office staff into several
folders, based on record type or subject. This order has been
maintained.]

Box

2002/151-60

Return of death warrant, correspondence with the governor's
office, 2000

[Montoya was a Mexican citizen whose case generated a large amount of
correspondence and other records, some of it concerning the lack of
notification of Mexican consular officials by the state upon his
arrest.]

Memos to governor from BPP, court records - order, diplomatic
note from Mexican Embassy to U.S. Department of State forwarded to
general counsel, notes, correspondence with the governor's office -
governor of Tamaulipas and Consul General of Mexico, 1996

Correspondence with the governor's office - governor of
Tamaulipas, district attorney and others, and memos from general
counsel to governor, 1996

[Note: There is a lot of duplication
between these TDCJ background files and those received with
the 1998 BPP packet. These materials were either copied from
the BPP files or, more likely, were received
separately.]

[Executed on January 21, 2000. This execution was
presided over by Lieutenant Governor Rick Perry as acting governor
during the absence of the governor from the state. There is a large
group of death penalty protest letters filed with these records,
along with a large stack of petitions protesting his execution,
largely based on possible mental health problems of the
inmate.]

Box

2002/151-66

Return of death warrant, correspondence with the governor's
office, execution summary by governor's general counsel, BPP voting
summary, 1999-2000

Correspondence with the governor's office, case summary in
South Western Reporter, 1984, 1990

Exhibits:

[This set of exhibits was filed with additional BPP case file
materials. It is not clear if these exhibits were initially part of
a clemency petition, a writ, or BPP case material. There is a list
of exhibits, titled "The exhibits,"
but no clear indication what document this set belongs with. It
appears these files may have come from Brian Pardo.]

Information provided to Lieutenant Governor Perry by
governor's general counsel, BPP, the Attorney General, and the
inmate's attorney, 1999

Tucker, Karla Faye, # 777

[There is a voluminous amount of records concerning Karla Faye Tucker
in the execution case files. She was the first woman to be executed
by Texas in many years, and her execution sparked protests because
she was a woman and because of the work she was doing with outreach
programs through prison ministries.]

[Executed on February 3, 1998.]

Box

2002/151-70

Return of death warrant, press release, notes, correspondence
of attorney with governor's general counsel, internal memo to
governor on inmate's last day, 1998

Case summaries in Federal
Reporter, 1997[2 folders]

Notes, execution summary by governor's general counsel with
letter from district attorney and letter from inmate attached,
correspondence with the governor's office, 1997-1998

Letter to Secretary of State (Al Gonzales) with attached
study on clemency, 1998

Letter to Secretary of State with attached study on
clemency forwarded to the governor, 1998

Letter to BPP with attached study on clemency, 1998

[This is a different study than the one
sent to the Secretary of State.]

Letter to BPP with attached study on clemency - copy sent
to the governor, 1998

Letter to Secretary of State from district attorney with
attached crime scene photos and video, audio tapes of
conversation of inmate's accomplice, and letter to BPP about the
case, 1983,
1998

[A copy of the DA's letter without the
photos and tapes is present, accompanied by a letter from
the inmate to BPP and the governor.]

Memo to Secretary of State with clipping, printouts from
inmate's website's home page, correspondence of the governor's
office with Department of Public Safety, and with a non-involved
district attorney, and a response from a trial official to BPP,
1998

BPP memos to governor and board, letter to BPP from
inmate, notifications to and responses from trial officials to
BPP, criminal history, execution summary by TDCJ for BPP,
correspondence with the governor's office, court records,
1995-1997

Court records, TDCJ records, 1979-1995

Court records - opinion, 1989

Criminal history, court records, TDCJ records, 1979-1989

TDCJ records, 1984-1985

Court records - memorandum and order, 1996

Case summaries in South Western
Reporter and Federal
Reporter, 1981-1989